February 7, 2025

India to launch new domain name for banks to fight digital fraud

India’s central bank is introducing an exclusive “.bank.in” domain for banks from April 2025 as part of efforts to combat rising digital payment frauds and bolster trust in online banking services. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) will serve as the exclusive registrar for the new domain, the Reserve Bank of […]

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After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay

October 12, 2022

Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks. Bank was previously cofounder and CEO at Timeful, a smart scheduling app that helped users make better use of their time through automatically prioritizing their various […]

After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Lifestores Healthcare raises $3M to expand its pharmaceutical marketplace across Nigeria

October 12, 2022

Africa’s $45 billion pharmaceuticals market is expected to grow 10% CAGR to $100 billion by 2030. Yet, the sector struggles with highly fragmented and undercapitalized supply chains rife with fake medications, which cause the death of thousands of patients yearly; in Nigeria, 20-40% of drugs are counterfeit.  A handful of healthtech companies bring efficiency to […]

Lifestores Healthcare raises $3M to expand its pharmaceutical marketplace across Nigeria by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome to ClimateTech

October 12, 2022
Come back to this page for rolling updates throughout the day as we kick off ClimateTech, MIT Technology Review’s first ever conference dedicated to finding solutions for climate change. Programming starts at 9am ET on Wednesday October 12, and you can follow along here to find out what’s being said on stage. For a taste…

Climate action is gaining momentum. So are the disasters.

October 12, 2022
This essay is an extended version of the opening talk that James Temple will deliver this morning at ClimateTech, MIT Technology Review’s inaugural climate and energy conference.  In recent months, we’ve witnessed stunning progress on climate action—and terrifying signs of the dangers we’ve unleashed. The US finally stepped up as a leader in climate action,…

What happens when you donate your body to science

October 12, 2022
Rebecca George doesn’t mind the vultures. They remind her of toddlers as they rustle their feathers in annoyance when she opens the gate of the Western Carolina University body farm early one July morning. Her arrival has interrupted their breakfast. George studies human decomposition, and part of decomposing is becoming food. Scavengers are welcome.  The…

Meta is desperately trying to make the metaverse happen

October 11, 2022
The star of Tuesday’s Meta Connect, the so-called “state of the union” for the company formerly known as Facebook, was Meta Quest Pro. Meta’s newest virtual-reality headset clocks in at a whopping $1,499.99. That’s a significant price jump from its previous iteration, Meta Quest 2, which could be yours for $399.99—not exactly cheap, but still…

Smashing success: NASA’s DART spacecraft bumped an asteroid off its orbit

October 11, 2022

The demise of a spacecraft is usually something rather poignant. But two weeks ago, NASA celebrated one’s destruction. On September 26, NASA executed the final stage of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), in which a spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to investigate whether or not such an impact could deflect an Earth-bound […]

Smashing success: NASA’s DART spacecraft bumped an asteroid off its orbit by Stefanie Waldek originally published on TechCrunch

The complicated danger of surveillance states

October 11, 2022
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about what’s happening in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Welcome back to China Report!  I recently had a very interesting conversation with Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin. They wrote a new book called Surveillance State, which explores how China is…

Kraken’s Jesse Powell on why he’s stepping down as CEO of the crypto exchange

October 11, 2022

Jesse Powell is stepping down from the CEO role at U.S.-based crypto exchange Kraken, The Wall Street Journal reported last month. Co-founded by Powell and Thanh Luu in 2011, Kraken is now the fourth-largest crypto exchange by volume, according to CoinMarketCap. It’s a critical inflection point for the company, which was valued at $10 billion […]

Kraken’s Jesse Powell on why he’s stepping down as CEO of the crypto exchange by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch